Well, almost. It seems that it is at least possible for a railroad to install a form of signaling that isn't a god damned Darth Vader. What I am speaking of are the perfectly acceptable LED searchlights seen here.
Unfortunately, it looks like that interlocking might be an isolated case as in other locations Darth Vaders are springing up. :-(
If anyone lives up there make sure you get out and catch the old signals while you can.
The DMIR searchlights aren't all gone yet. The four locations I know for sure are all on Iron Range Sub: East Wye (Iron Jct., Fayal, Sparta, and Allen Jct. But Allen Jct. and Sparta have replacement L&W Vaders waiting, and Fayal doesn't actually protect anything anymore (there was a crossover there once
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update!
DeleteI have an update with some mixed news. Most of the Range has gone to the Dark Side, except the west (RR north) end of Keenan Yd, and one or two distant switch indicators between Two Harbors and the Range. Apparently L&W has a new style of head that looks a bit like those Mod. Mfg. things CP is using. Oddly enough, one of those distants, north of Brimson, is definitely an H-2 (DMIR was a die-hard US&S customer), but the case had a weird name on it: Bronson & something? I can't find the picture now to verify that.
ReplyDeleteOn a lighter note, BNSF still has some SAs protecting sidings, including some dwarves, and Northshore Mining still has a few if you know where to look (NSM is very hard to get at).
I'm going to keep digging for that weird H-2 and anything else if you want it